Railway General Knowledge.

[Peterthegreat]

A clue perhaps.
The station closed to passengers in 1941.

 

[D6130]

Hirwaun Pond?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Hirwaun Pond?

Sorry.....

 

[D6130]

Nant-y-bwch?

 

[Grumpy]

Waenavon?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Waenavon?

That's the one.
Please take us to new heights with the next question.

 

[Grumpy]

That's the one.
Please take us to new heights with the next question.

Name of the 1964 Huddersfield Grange visitor

 

[Cowley]

Name of the 1964 Huddersfield Grange visitor

Argh. “Betton” maybe?

 

[D6130]

Bearley Grange?

 

[Grumpy]

Argh. “Betton” maybe?

No

 

[Grumpy]

Bearley Grange?

No

 

[Peterthegreat]

6858 Woolston Grange

 

[Grumpy]

6858 Woolston Grange

Correct-over to you to take away-don't damage the platform edges

 

[Peterthegreat]

Thank you.

Which railway was opened by a former governor of New South Wales in July 1927?

 

[Calthrop]

Wild guess: the NSW Government Railways' new long route from the east of the state, westward to Broken Hill?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Wild guess: the NSW Government Railways' new long route from the east of the state, westward to Broken Hill?

Sorry not that one.

 

[Gloster]

Fawley branch?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Fawley branch?

Not the Fawley branch.

 

[Calthrop]

Not the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch, I suppose?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Not the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch, I suppose?

It was indeed.
Your turn to open the next question.

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks -- was slightly a case of "go on thinking of lines which opened in the late 1920s" ...

What with the Antipodean connections re your question, as above; staying in those general purlieus:

Please name -- further details welcomed but not demanded -- one: working-not-static, heritage railway undertaking (present, or not-highly-distant past) in New Zealand. (Preferably, something relatively substantial; as opposed to, say, the Waikikamoukau Model Engineers' quarter-mile-long 7-and-a-quarter-inch gauge line.)

 

[Calthrop]

Yet another question of mine, seemingly dead in the water -- "putting out of its misery" indicated, I think. (Present-day "premier" heritage line in N.Z. probably reckoned to be the 3ft. 6in. gauge, some four-and-a-half miles long, Glenbrook Vintage Railway near Auckland.)

Open floor.

 

[DerekC]

The North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Bill of 1871 proposed eight 2' gauge railways (not all of them authorised) linked together to form a main line, the line actually constructed being part of a branch. Where were the planned western and eastern extremities of the main line?

 

[martinsh]

Porthmadog & Betws y Coed ?

 

[DerekC]

Porthmadog & Betws y Coed ?

Both on the proposed NWNG main line, but not the ends.

 

[DerekC]

This one obviously has obviously died for lack of interest so I will remove the remains. The NWNGR was planned to run from Porthdinllaen on the north west coast of the Lleyn Peninsula via Pwllheli, Porthmadog, Beddgelert and Bettws-y-Coed to Corwen. It included conversion of the Cambrian route between Pwllheli and Porthmadog to mixed gauge. I guess in 1871 that route didn't seem such a crazy idea!


Open floor

 

[Ashley Hill]

Where in England could you have found an Elephant regularly shunting wagons?

 

[Gloster]

Bodmin & Wadebridge?

 

[Ashley Hill]

Bodmin & Wadebridge?

Sadly not.

 

[Calthrop]

Where in England could you have found an Elephant regularly shunting wagons?

I once had a dream involving this thing (a literal quadruped with trunk and tusks) -- dream sequence set on the West Coast Main not far north of London; and in World War II, when presumably "anything went": but one takes it that dreams don't count.